Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Gin, syphilis, and lunacy.
- A history of the wheelchair.
- Why we need more black doulas.
- Teaching “Car Talk” to new docs.
- Viking women, at home and at war.
- Fairy tales may be older than we think.
- The real doctors who inspired M*A*S*H.
- The camera as a weapon of imperialism.
- Regulating sex work in Medieval Europe.
- Benjamin Franklin and an asbestos purse.
- Lynch mobs killed Latinos across the West.
- Suburban women’s plastic path to empowerment.
- A brief and depressing history of LGBT workers’ rights.
- 10 San Francisco queer party scene photos, 1986-1994.
- The Harlem Renaissance dancer fought for lesbian history.
- We’ve always hated girls online: a Wayback Machine investigation.
Featured image caption: A mother breastfeeding her child. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.
